Category Archives: WJTV

Murdaugh's defense team to hear testimony Wednesday
COLLETON COUNTY, S.C. (WCBD) - Defense is expected to continue calling witnesses in the Alex Murdaugh murder trial Wednesday after only making it through two on Tuesday. Murdaugh is accused of ki...
Chase Laudenslager Feb 22, 2023

Washington boy missing for 8 months found hundreds of miles away in Missouri
JOPLIN, Mo. (WDAF) - FBI agents have found a missing 8-year-old boy who disappeared from his Vancouver, Washington, home last year safe in Missouri. The FBI announced that deputies found Breadson John...
Heidi Schmidt Feb 21, 2023

Accused Mississippi mass shooter charged with capital murder
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Authorities have announced an additional charge against the man who they say went on a deadly shooting rampage last week, killing six people that included his ex-wife a...
The Associated Press Feb 21, 2023

NAACP advocates react to Jackson-based legislation
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - The Mississippi National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) chapter was the latest group to voice their opposition to Jackson-focused bills coming out of...
Richard Lake Feb 21, 2023

One killed, one injured in shooting on Savanna Street
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - One person was killed and another was injured in a shooting that happened in Jackson this weekend. The shooting happened on Savanna Street on Saturday, February 18. Ridgeland W...
Biancca Ball Feb 21, 2023

House committee approves up to $4 million for UMMC burn center
The House Appropriations committee on Monday passed a bill that would award the University of Mississippi Medical Center up to $4 million in federal COVID-19 relief funding to establish a bu...
Kate Royals Feb 21, 2023

Husband gives chilling account of woman's death in Arkabutla, MS mass shooting
ARKABUTLA, Miss. - The husband of one of the victims gunned down in Friday's mass shooting in Mississippi says his life will never be the same. There is still no motive given for a mass shooting that ...
Mike Suriani Feb 21, 2023

Mississippi Senate passes bill to ban youth transgender treatment
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - A bill that would ban transgender treatment for anyone under the age of 18 passed the Mississippi Senate on Tuesday. Senators passed House Bill 1125, also known as the REAP Act...
Richard Lake Feb 21, 2023

William "Polo" Edwards makes court appearance
HINDS COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) - The man accused of killing Better Men Society Founder Robert Davis appeared in court on Tuesday, February 21. William "Polo" Edwards appeared in front of Circuit Judge Fay...
Marie Mennefield Feb 21, 2023

Medicine-resistant fungal infection, C. auris, potentially linked to four deaths in Mississippi
Mississippi is battling an outbreak of C. auris, a fungal infection resistant to medication, which the Department of Health says may be responsible for the deaths of four people. "Our investigat...
Sara DiNatale Feb 21, 2023
